Category: Pictures from Italy
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Dreaming of Venice
The chapter on Venice in Pictures from Italy — which Dickens sets up as a long…
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Only the poor
. . . In the pleasant Cemetery at Bologna, I found myself walking next Sunday morning,…
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The view from the Palazzo Peschiere
. . . There lies all Genoa, in beautiful confusion, with its many churches, monasteries, and…
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The wild fancies on the walls and ceilings
Thanks to Marian for finding pictures of the Palazzo Pieschere at The Victorian Web. This one…
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The Palace of the Fishponds
There is not in Italy, they say (and I believe them), a lovelier residence than the…
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At a ruined palazzo
I loitered to and fro, under a colonnade, forming two sides of a weedy, grass-grown court-yard,…
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In Genoa
The view, as I have said, is charming; but in the day you must keep the…
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Oops
Dickens is still in France, and looking at a "curious clock" in Lyons Cathedral: There was…
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Don’t be alarmed!
So, the Dickens family isn't even in Italy yet — they're making their way there from…
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How Mr. Dickens spent his vacation
My desk is piled high with books about Dickens (and here come two more! Yikes!). But…